Job Description
Temporary Human Resource Officers- 2 Positions
Country/Region: Uganda
Location: TBD
Organization: Save the Children International
Join us to lead sustainable change for children:
- Be part of a GLOBAL and DIVERSE technical community
- Get EXPOSURE in many different contexts
- Test and scale up INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
- Influence policies that affect MILLIONS OF CHILDREN
OVERVIEW
Are you passionate about being an advocate for children? Do you want to use your expertise to bring about lasting change for children and be a part of an inspiring, dynamic global movement?
THE ROLE
The Temporary HR Officer will support the process of attracting and hire high-quality candidates across the assigned Save the Children Uganda program location. This role will support the HR department in ensuring timely, compliant, and inclusive hiring processes to support the urgent programmatic staffing needs.
The Temporary HR Officer may take on additional HR related tasks as and when asked to do so.
Sounds interesting? Read more below
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Recruitment and Onboarding:
- Manage the full-cycle recruitment process including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and onboarding for all levels of staff.
- Collaborate with hiring managers in the development of job descriptions and recruitment strategies.
- Advertise the job vacancies on appropriate platforms to attract the right candidates.
- Coordinate candidate assessments, reference checks, and selection processes in line with organizational policies.
- Ensure all recruitment practices comply with SCI Ug HR policies, donor regulations, and local labor laws.
- Maintain accurate recruitment records, generate and ensure approval of recruitment reports
- Develop and maintain a database of qualified candidates for critical and frequently recruited roles.
- Facilitate and coordinate the onboarding process for new field staff, ensuring they receive all necessary resources, training, and policy orientation.
- Provide feedback to the unsuccessful candidates after the interview process is complete.
- Responsible for drafting all Community Based Volunteer (Teachers) contracts, ensure accuracy and compliance with the policies and applicable laws.
- Work closely with the Project Officers to ensure timely and accurate update of the Community Based Volunteer (CBV) database and the Volunteer Management System (VMS) with all the hired/contracted Teachers.
- Assist in other HR/Admin related tasks as and when asked, including but not limited to Performance Management and Development, Policy Compliance and Documentation, HR Reporting and Analytics, Health, Safety, and Staff Well-being, Assisting in special HR projects or initiatives, keep updated with HR best practices in the humanitarian sector, especially those relevant to field-based work.
To be a strong supporter and advocate for children in this role you will need to have
QUALIFICATIONS
- A first class or 2nd Upper bachelor’s degree in human resources, and or Organisational Psychology is required.
- At least 3 Years relevant working experience in a busy HR environment – especially in managing high volume recruitments within short timelines.
- Demonstrated understanding and proficiency in the field of Human Resources Management and ability to work under minimum supervision.
- Good understanding of national legal requirements relating to HR, including labour laws and administrative laws.
- Good understanding of employment related statutory requirements, organizational policies, systems and procedures formulation and management.
- Good Interview, negotiation, listening and counselling skills.
- Strong experience within recruitment, operating at different levels of the business, and familiarity with competency models
- Experience and capability with regards to direct sourcing approaches
- Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
- A sensitive approach to advising and mentoring staff and to dealing with critical issues.
- Excellent planning, coordination and reporting skills, with the ability to organize a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities.
- Creative and visionary
- Ability to intervene with crisis management or troubleshooting as necessary.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
- Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must.
- Excellent time management and planning capacity
- Very high level of integrity is required for the role.
Additional job responsibilities
- The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Child Safeguarding:
- We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Health and Safety
- The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
Application Information:
Pease apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document not exceeding 5mbs to https://hcri.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Application closes on February 28, 2026, at midnight Uganda time.
Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best qualified talent, persons with disabilities and female candidates are encouraged to apply.
Disclaimer: Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents.
OUR DIVERSITY BELIEF
Save the Children International is committed to create a truly inclusive, effective and representative organisational culture, encouraging equity and diversity among its employees and eliminating unlawful discrimination. We want our people to be truly representative of all sections of society. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, disabilities, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientation etc., including a range of different experiences and capabilities helps us understand, represent and serve our beneficiaries better. We are guided by our values in everything we do, and recognise that being a diverse and inclusive employer helps us fulfil our responsibility to make a difference for children around the world.
About Us
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
· No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
· All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
· Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Application Information:
Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/jobs We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
